About

The Israel Dota Arena is a tournament created by gamers for gamers and its one of a kind in Israel's Dota 2 scene. This is the first try of a major E-Sports sponsor to lift up Israel's Dota 2 community to a competitive level and we have risen to the challenge.

Israel Dota Arena is sponsored by and all prizes in the tournament will be given by them. We challenge you to step into the arena and fight for the first Israel Dota Arena championship and to the winners goes the spoil!

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First Place Prize

MSI has a new flagship headset since February 2015, DS-502, which is a virtual 7.1 channel gaming headset. MSI has packed in a lot features to DS-502, from improved passive noise-reduction with large sized earpads to better sound quality across the board.

Second Place Prize

MSI Sistorm is an amazing gaming mouse pad with silicon base which provides constant and superior performance. Silicon is a kind of environment friendly material which not only provides perfect touching feeling but can sticky firmly on the working surface. More specifically, Sistorm features high-tech 3D texture surface which provides low friction and high accuracy features in all direction. With advanced edge cover technology, the mouse pad adds the high value and integrated feeling in the sense of sight and touch. Also, water repellent surface makes Sistorm more durable and easy for cleaning.

Third Place Prize

MSI DS100 GAMING Mouse is equipped with professional-grade laser sensor offers lightning fast 6,600 fps image processing capability for superior control and precise mouse movement. With the advanced ergonomic design and high-tech non-slip coating, DS100 GAMING mouse maximizes wrist comfort while hours gaming and helps prevent the pain or ease repetitive motion or strain. The connector is 18K gold plated and uses military-grade close-woven wiring. This drastically increases the durability and lifetime of the keys and ensures there is no signal corruption thus improving latencies leading to faster controls. Also, it comes with dedicated software that records macro keys and a variety of hot keys both of which allow you to perform in-game tasks at lightning speed.

Tournament Rules

General

Administration & Announcements

Everybody who is authorized by IDA to administrate the competition based on its rules and regulations will be called an "admin" or “referee" in the following, the collectivity of all admins will be called the "administration". A list of the current referees can be found on the staff page.

Participants & Teams

Every real person - unless oficially banned - with a valid steam account is allowed to participate in the competition and will be called "participant" in the following. Participants joining a team in order to fulfill the minimum required amount of team members will be called a "team" in the following.

Commitments

By attending the competition participants acknowledge without limitation to comply with the rules and regulations, official announcement, and with the statements and decisions made by the referees.

Every participant acknowledges the right for the administration to modify the rules and regulations for adjustments at any time without notice.

Every participant has to show the needed respect towards referees and other participants. Insults and unfair or disrespectful behavior towards anyone are not tolerated and will be punished.

Every participant must always have the newest version of Steam and Dota 2 installed and has to check for updates in time before each match. Unless a new version comes out right before the match, patching is not a valid reason to delay it.

Every team accepts the official schedule of the competition and declares its ability to be available during these times.

Every team and participant has to try to win every game at every stage of the competition. Purposefully losing for any reason is strictly forbidden.

Communication

Referees should be contacted via the designated channel. Requests via any other platform may be ignored.

Teams & Players

Team Size

A Team has to consist of at least five and at most ten participants. Those persons will be called "team members" or "members" of the team in the following.

Registration

In order to sign up for the competition, a team has to fulfill all requirements the tournament platform forces.

Lineup Changes

Team members can be removed or added during the competition as long as the minimum team requirements are met at all times. There might be additional restrictions to this rule in specific competitions.

Stand-ins

Besides the official members a team has the right to use another person as a player during a match, if this person meets the following requirement: He is not member of another team or has played a game for another team within the competition. This person will be called "stand-in" in the following.

The amount of stand-ins used within the competition is not limited unless stated otherwise in the individual rules of the competition.

Ingame Names

Stand-ins should be clearly marked as such.

Schedule

Match times

The official schedule of the competition can be found on the individual competition rules and/or in an official announcement. This schedule includes the time of each match or of each round (in which case all matches of the round have that time as official match time).

If a delayed end of a previous match prohibits a match to start on schedule (due to either one of the involved teams still playing or the official broadcaster still streaming the previous match), the match time is changed to 5 minutes after the previous match ends.

Rescheduling

The change of a match time is only possible under exceptional circumstances and has to be confirmed by the administration.

Punctuality

If one team has not shown any sign of activity (that includes: No team member wrote a match comment, no team member has joined the lobby, all other attempts to contact the team failed) until 15 minutes after the match time, a default win should be requested by the other team via the designated channel. The default win for both games will be confirmed by an admin under normal circumstances.

If one team is not ready to start the match (but has shown activity) until 15 minutes after the match time, the opponents should report that 15 minutes after the match time.

Hosting & Settings

Lobby Hosting

Unless a referee interferes or both teams agree on the opposite, the team who is shown first on the official match page has to host the lobby. If it hasn't hosted after 5 minutes, the second team has to do it. The hosting team has to write the password directly to the opponents.

Spectators

Every person is allowed to join the game as a broadcaster or unassigned player, if both teams allow it. If one team asks a spectator to leave before or during the game, he has to do that immediately.

Official broadcasters and anyone authorized by a referee, have the right to spectate any game without the agreement of the teams.

Server Location

The default server location is EU West.

Other servers than the default one are used, if both teams agree or a referee decides on it

Sides & Drafting Order

The side and drafting order of each game depends on the mode of the match. The "first team" means the team mentioned first on the matchpage, matchticker, or grid (depending on the type of competition). The sides and drafting order of games within a type of match not mentioned in the following (e.g. best of five) are decided by a referee.

One game: The first team chooses the side, the second team the drafting order.

Best of three (or three games series): The first team is radiant in game 1, drafting order is random. Game 2 is reverse. In game 3, the first team chooses the side, the second team the drafting order.

Game Settings

The hosting team has to put the following settings to the lobby :

GAME MODE - Captains Mode, unless already opened by admin

LOBBY PASSWORD - see 4.1

SERVER LOCATION - see 4.3

STARTING TEAM - see 4.4

PENALTY-RADIANT - None, unless stated otherwise by an admin

PENALTY-DIRE - None, unless stated otherwise by an admin

SERIES TYPE - free choice, recommended to fit the match mode

Enable cheats - No

Fill empty slots with bots - No

All Chat - No

BOT DIFFICULTY - free choice

VERSION - Tournament, unless stated otherwise by an admin or official announcment

SPECTATORS - Enabled

DOTA TV DELAY - 2 minutes

During a game

Picks & Bans

The hero pool always consists of all heroes the game mode allows and might therefore change several times during the competition. The game must not be paused during the draft, unless a drafter disconnects.

Pauses

Each team has the right to pause the game for an acceptable duration, if a player announces it at least three seconds in advance and calls a coherent reason (exception: not necessary, if someone disconnects). The game must not be resumed before both teams agree with it. When the number or the duration of breaks becomes too high or long, the administration may force the continuation of the game.

Disconnects & Reconnects

If a player disconnects, the game is to be paused instantly. Everyone has up to ten minutes to reconnect to the game (if the same person disconnects more than once, all times get added up). If this time is passed, the opposing team may continue the game, unless an admin demands the opposite. The affected player is in this case still allowed to rejoin later on.

Broadcasting

Every authorized spectator (according to 4.2) inside the game is allowed to provide a video stream with a delay of at least two minutes.

Spectators from DotaTV are allowed to broadcast a match with any delay. Upon request from the administration.

The players are not allowed to watch or listen to any of these video streams or DotaTV at any time during their match. Furthermore they are not allowed to provide a stream themselves, unless there is no official broadcaster inside the game.

Bugs

If any serious bugs occur, the game has to be paused immediately and the administration decides how to continue. Abusing a bug is forbidden.

Tools / Hacks

The usage of any Dota-related tool aside from Steam and Dota 2 during a match is strictly forbidden.

Ending

A game is finished, when an Ancient Fortress is destroyed, when the majority of a team leaves on purpose, or when the administration decides on it. (note: A game is not forfeited, when a player types "gg" or "ff". Always wait for the ancient to be destroyed!).

Rule Violation & Punishment

Breaking of the rules or ignoring the order of an admin may result in a punishment for a whole team or a specific player. Type and amount is chosen by a referee.

Possible Team Punishments :

Default Loss for one game

Default Loss for the whole match

Time Penalty for the next draft

Prize Reduction

Temporary or permanent ban from the competition

Ban from future IDA competitions

Possible Player Punishments :

Temporary ban from the competition

Permanent ban from the competition

Ban from future IDA competitions

Prizes Distribution

This part will be sent exclusively to the tournament winners.

Legal Process

Legal proceedings are not permitted.

Staff

IDA global administarators will be called "Admins",
Everybody who is authorized by IDA to administrate the competition based on its rules and regulations will be called an "Game Admins",
Everybody who is authorized by IDA to broadcast the competition based on its rules and regulations will be called an "Broadcasters".